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Updated: 9-29-22

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xxxOrder of page images: 065-067, 135, 069, 068, 070-071, 113, 072-074, 081, 090, 076-080, 102, 082-085, 038-038b, 039, 040-040c
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1978-152-3-065

date: ca.1920

location: Alum Rock Park?

photographer:

print: 3.5" x 5.75" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:

Enginemen and families at picnic


1978-152-3-066

date: 1926

location: San Jose Roundhouse

photographer:

print: 2.5" x 4.5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"San Jose Roundhouse 1926"; stamped "Enamello JUL 1 1926 Webbs"

comments:
2nd from left: A. R. Bullard

Enginemen eating watermelon in front of San Jose Roundhouse


1978-152-3-067

date: 1929

location: San Jose

photographer:

print:7" x 10.75" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"SJ 1929"

comments:

Mission Bay Baseball Team


1978-152-3-135

date: ca. 1935

location: Alum Rock Park?

photographer:

print: 4" x 5" landscape b&w

obverse data:
"B. Brown L. Grieb"

reverse data:


comments:
Brown likely is J. R. (Bob?) Brown. Note Grieb and Brown are in work clothes.

Engineer L. Grieb at picnic table with others


1978-152-3-069

date: ca. 1930-35

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 4" x 5"

obverse data:
Penned in ID's are largely illegible, but the following people are known:
bottom row (L to R): E. A. "Dad" Kelsey, 3rd; L. Grieb, 4th; C.W. Tenney, 5th;
J. Balentine, top left, next to J.T. Moore; 4th from left, J. H. Taylor

reverse data:


comments:
Same day as Pt. 3 pg. 3, #068, #070 below

Group of pensioners and engineers


1978-152-3-068

date: 1930-35

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 4" x 5" portrait b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
see also image 069 above and 070 below

Engineer L. Grieb wearing sombrero


1978-152-3-070

date: 1ca. 1930-35

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 3" x 4.75" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
same date as #069 above and
Pt. 3 pg. 3, #068
top row from left: 2nd J. Balentine
row 2: 3rd W. J. Baumeister
row 3: 1st L. Grieb
row 4: center, seated Dad Kelsey, C. W. Tenney

Pensioners with enginees and band


1978-152-3-071

date: ca. 1937

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 3.5" x 5.5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Barbeque at Mission Bay"

description:
from left: 5th Dad Kelsey, 6th Billy Jones, 7th W. J. Baumeister

Mission Bay Barbecue Club Cooks with Dad Kelsey


1978-152-3-113

date: ca.late 1930's?

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Barbeque at Mision Bay R House"

comments:

Mission Bay roundhouse workers eating at barbeque


1978-152-3-072

date: ca.1935

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 3.75" x 4.75" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
center, seated in chair, C. W. Tenney

Pensioner giving speech at Mission Bay Garden


1978-152-3-073

date: ca.1925-30

location:

photographer:

print: 3.5" x 3.5"

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
The intensity of the converstation suggests that an engineer is making his grievances known to the man in the Stetson hat at center, who may be Road Foreman of Engines W. G. Fifield.

Enginemen with road foreman of engines?


1978-152-3-074

date: 1931

location:

photographer:

print: 3" x 5" portrait b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
stamped "JUL 3 1931 Bear Photo Service

comments:

Group of enginemen with fish


1978-152-3-081

date: 7-14-1935

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 2.75" x %.5"

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
see #90 below for data

Group of barbecue chefs and waiters


1978-152-3-090

date: 7-14-1935

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: cropped copy of #081

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Big Trees, 1935:
Identified from left to right:
"[J.] T. Moore, [L. L.] Page, [A. H.] Soderer; Mrs. Ryan [wife of Fireman G. W. Ryan], [C. T.] Malone & [F. B.] Simpson [behind Ryan], [G. W.] Rubottom [holding cleaver], Mrs. Mathews [wife of C. T. Mathews], Olstine [sic, O. L. Stine], Mrs. Madley [back], [unidentified man], Mrs. Malone, [unidentified woman], [C. T. Mathews, [W. J.] Baumeister", [unknown young girl, front]
Note: The person listed as Mrs. Madley may actually be unidentified, with the two right-most women being Mrs. Madley and Mrs. Malone. No Madley shows on enginemen seniority lists.

comments:
Coast Division Pensioners' Barbecue

Group of barbecue chefs and waiters (duplicate)


1978-152-3-076

date: 7-14-35

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:
"
Coast Division Pensioners Barbecue Big Trees, Felton July 14, 1935"

reverse data:


comments:
from left: J. Balentine, 11th; A. H. Soderer, 14th;

11th from left: J. Balentine

Coast Division Pensioners at Big Trees barbecue


1978-152-3-077

date: 7-14-35

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 3" x 4" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
O. L. Stine with fiddle; other individuals unknown. Man with banjo also in #078

Engineer O. L. Stine playing fiddle


1978-152-3-078

date: 7-14-35

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 3" x 3" b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
O. L. Stine with fiddle; his wife presumably at his left; other individuals unknown. Man with banjo also in #077

Engineer O. L. Stine and wife

1978-152-3-079

date: ca. 1935

location: San Francisco

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Engineers' Wives - SF - 1935"

comments:

Engineer's wives


1978-152-3-080

date: 10-1935

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Eng Men Mission Bay Round House Oct 1935"

comments:

Group of engineers and pensioners


1978-152-3-102

date: 10-1935

location:

photographer:

print: duplicate of #080, above

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:

Group of engineers and pensioners, duplicate


1978-152-3-082

date: ca. late 1930's

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 4" x 5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:

Group of engineers and pensioners


1978-152-3-083

date: 1937

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 8.25" x 10.5" landscape b&w

obverse data:
"1937"

reverse data:
"1937"

comments:

Group of engineers and pensioners


1978-152-3-084

date: 1937

location: Big Trees, Felton

photographer:

print: 8.25" x 10.5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Coast Division Picnic Felton - 1937"

comments:

Group of engineers and families as barbecue workers


1978-152-3-085

date: 10-4-38

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 7.25" x 9.25" landscape b&w

obverse data:
"Oct 4 1938"

reverse data:
top row, left to right:
5 unknown; 6 W. Skelton; 7 Cleveland; 8 unknown; 10 M. Mink; 11 Fleck; 12 J. Phillips;13 Duncanson?
middle row:
8 unknown; 9 H. Russell; 10-11 unknown; 12 J. Farrell
bottom row:
3 unknown; 4 H. Spencer; 5 F. Delves [Dalves?]; unknown; 7 unidentified, but is W.J.; 8 unknown Baumeister


comments:

Group of enginemen and roundhouse workers


1978-152-3-038

date: 9-26-1938

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:
"Kelsey 89th Birthday, Sept. 26-1938"

comments:

Dad Kelsey's 89th Birthday Party, Mission Bay Garden


1978-152-3-038b

date: 9-26-1938

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
Daylight locomotives may have been staged by hostlers for the photo.

Locomotives Lined Up for Dad Kelsey's 89th Birthday Party, Mission Bay Garden


1978-152-3-039

date: 9-25-39

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 8" x 10" landscape b&w

obverse data:
"Dad Kelsey's 90th Birthday Party Held At Mission Bay [illegible] Sept 26, 1939."

reverse data:


comments:
top row: 2 J. T. Moore, 15 W. J. Baumeister, 19 E. F. Sipple
bottom row seated on chairs: 1 J. F. McCarthy, 2 J. Balentine, 3 C. W. Tenney, 5 Dad Kelsey, 7 C. G. Elder
sitting on ground: F. B. Simpson

Dad Kelsey's 90th Birthday Party


1978-152-3-040

date: 9-25-39

location: Mission Bay Garden

photographer:

print: 4.25" x 5" portrait b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:

Dad Kelsey Cutting 90th Birthday Cake


1978-152-3-040b

date: 9-25-39

location: Mission Bay Roundhouse

photographer:

print: 4.25" x 5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
W. J. Baumeister, far left; F. B. Simpson, behind Kelsey.

Dad Kelsey Admiring Birthday Cake


1978-152-3-375

date: 9-25-39

location: Mission Bay Roundhouse

photographer:

print: 4.25" x 5" landscape b&w

obverse data:

reverse data:


comments:
Dad looks comfortable in a much larger locomotive than the comparative teapots he ran out of Santa Cruz before he retired.

Dad Kelsey in Cab Window of Daylight Locomotive #4422